Product Focus: Engaging work almost always focuses on a product or performance of value to students. Questions to ask yourself: •Is the work assigned clearly linked to some product(s), performance, or exhibition? •Are students aware of the product toward which the work or activity is directed, i.e., do students understand the connection between what they are doing and what they are expected to produce? •Do students care about or see meaning in the product they are being asked to produce? Action: Consider what kinds of performance, product, or exhibition will appeal to students’ needs and interests while ensuring that students will learn what you expect them to learn. Tools, Examples, or Tasks that Create Quality Products, Performances, or Exhibitions:
brochure poster map portfolio presentation letter to editor advertisement song poem billboard slogan t-shirt
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Product Focus: Engaging work almost always focuses on a product or performance of value to students.
Questions to ask yourself:
•Is the work assigned clearly linked to some product(s), performance, or exhibition?
•Are students aware of the product toward which the work or activity is directed, i.e., do students understand the connection between what they are doing and what they are expected to produce?
•Do students care about or see meaning in the product they are being asked to produce?
Action:
Consider what kinds of performance, product, or exhibition will appeal to students’ needs and interests while
ensuring that students will learn what you expect them to learn.
Tools, Examples, or Tasks that Create Quality Products, Performances, or Exhibitions:
brochure
poster
map
portfolio
presentation
letter to editor
advertisement
song
poem
billboard
slogan
t-shirt
video
podcast
flipbook
bookr
edublogs
wix